That's a lot of melting but what you never hear about in these studies is how much new ice is forming. Granted, the melting may be getting ahead of
the freezing but I don't think you can determine sea level rise without factoring that in.

I wonder how much of a impact all that water vapor around Hawaii will contribute to new snow and ice ? Speaking of CO2 and where its
measured ,wouldn't whats happening there kind of put a spike in the CO2 monitoring . Gee so much to think about and so little knowledge of how to put
it into a un-biased graph .

I think you hit the nail on the head and partially explains why there is scepticism. With so many variables how can any scientist(s) draw a
conclusion and say what's really going on as an absolute? Yes, the planet is warming, no doubt. What I oppose is people making a religion out of it
and turning it into a revenue opportunity.

“We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine
Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of
the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. “Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West
Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height
changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”

Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite altimeters.
In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface
height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks.

“We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine
Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of
the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. “Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West
Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height
changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”

Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite altimeters.
In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface
height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks.

The study you have linked to uses data collected from 2001 and 2008. More than a decade ago.

The data in the OP states "This is pushing up global sea levels by 0.6mm annually - a three-fold increase since 2012 when the last such assessment was
undertaken." I would assume, then, that this data would have been collected much more recently than 2012.

Is it your contention that nothing could have changed since 2008 (and 2001)?

And while you didn't come right out and say so, your post certainly implies that it refutes the one in the OP. How is that when it was done more than
a decade earlier?

So ........ what is the source of the 25 trillion tonnes, or thereabouts, of freshwater come from; to make the 25 trillions tonnes of ice.

If it came from seawater which contains salt then are the waters around Antarctica much more salty than the waters in the tropical areas?

If the ice came from salty seawater then why is the ocean itself not frozen?

If the glaciers 'flow' down hill then where is the source of the glaciers, and how did it reach such a high elevation before it started to flow
downhill towards the oceans? If the glaciers originated from the tops of mountains, then how could that be given there is also ice at the bottom of
the mountains?

Glacier is created by snow fall. I think your a little confused sea water never freezes in to glaciers. As for ice even frozen gravity effects it
causing it to makebits way to the ocean. So in the case of antartica less snow fall means thinner ice which means in fall it melts quicker.

Do to earths tilt right now the sun is further away and the ice sheets are curently growing.

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